#difficult

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"Success is more difficult to handle than failure."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting."

"Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

"Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life."

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself."

"I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring."